The Red Devils Are Back (To Save The English League)
Written by Major Tom
Filed under: Sports
November 28, 2005
Behind the heroics of the boy wonder Wayne Rooney, the Manchester United raced back to second place and be in real contention finally after such a bad start in the globally-popular English Premier League. For a while there, league-leading Chelsea seemed poised on staging a major runaway, having such a strong hold on the trophy even while the season is never even at its middle point. With Liverpool never getting away with a win, and Arsenal seemingly playing in luckluster fashion without its former captain Patrick Viera, the season could have been fairly boring by now (fantastic only to Chelsea fans of course) with everyone just waiting for the crowning of a champion that is already known way too early in the season.
But the Red Devils seem to have retain the winning form that had made them the most popular football club in the world just about four or five years ago—and in the entire history of sporting for that matter as a club, side by side with basketball’s Chicago Bulls and baseball’s New York Yankees.
The win at West Ham brings more cheers to ManU’s fans all over the globe and most importantly, it finally gave the drama that this Premier League season badly needs. In essence, it might just have save the English League from a sordid year. And it might just as well have brought me back to sports TV on many weekends to come.
I’m not really a huge soccer enthusiast. I’m just curious on how you ended up being a Manchester United fan. A British team? Well, I know why everybody should be engaged in sports. I used to play basketball before mountaineering became a favorite. I’m a member of the Cebu Mountaineering Society. I’m not into golfing like other people in my league. I don’t consider it a sport you know. I don’t want to call my aging and sickly fat golfer friend an athlete? Just kidding…
Comment by John Clark — November 28, 2005 @ 11:36 am
ManU has already established itself as one of the most popular team in English Football. But I’m not really impressed with their kind of football. In EPL my teams are Arsenal FC (it’s sad that Viera’s no longer with them) and Chelsea FC.
Comment by Sam — November 28, 2005 @ 1:26 pm
Hi John. I am really so much into basketball even when I was still in grade school, so crazy about it in fact. But when the cable television age finally descended I finally became enthralled with many other sports and one of it is soccer. I have grown to like Manchester United because I was so fascinated by their winning ways, especially in the year 2000 when they won all the three major European titles.
I used to be part also of a climbing club albeit not an organized one. We used to trek and climbed the highest mountain here in Zamboanga, the Pulonbato. The hobby is so demanding especially physically but once you get to the peak of the mountain, every pain becomes pleasure.
Hi Sam. I guess right now, ManU is not doing that well, what with all the new and very young recruits. But in the days of Beckham, and when Van Nistelroy was still so prolific, I thought their kind of play is so smooth and elegant, like a classical dance.
Comment by Major Tom — November 29, 2005 @ 5:26 am
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